Adorning the walls of the Historic Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum in Overtown is a series of artworks, each ...

Black History Month began as Negro History Week in 1926. Historian Carter G. Woodson, the founder of the Association for the Study Of African American Life and History (ASALH), selected the week ...

while the Rauschenbergian tableaux of Purvis Young unsentimentally showcase the tough Overtown neighborhood which produced him. A series of psychedelically colorful, categorization-defying ...

"Purvis Young was a modern-day griot in terms of how he documented the Black experience through his eyes and what he saw in his environment," says Timothy A. Barber, executive director of the ...

Purvis Young was a self-taught African-American artist known for his expressive collages and paintings. Made on found objects, including scrap metal, book pages, and discarded envelops, his richly ...

It has been said and often that Purvis Young is to Overtown ... me as an outcast artist, a Black artist, a ghetto artist, the ...

Purvis Young, a self-taught painter who emerged from ... painted by members of the Black Arts Movement. In the early 1970s he created a mural of his own, plastering a wall along a deserted stretch ...

For four decades, self-taught artist Purvis Young, who died April 20 at 67 ... the activities of contemporary art. Inspired by the Black Arts Movement’s Wall of Respect in Chicago, he had ...

A new exhibit at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in River North showcases works by the late Miami artist Purvis Young, who was inspired ... Bronzeville Black Metropolis National Heritage Area.

Ma Jones was not to be blamed that the Jesus that hung in her household was an image of a young white man. She was like other Black Americans passing by that same picture of Jesus as one of the ...